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Here is the Painting by Pixels Exhibition

Here are some photos of the Painting by Pixels exhibition which was held at Qube Gallery, Oswestry during August 2018 You are seeing artwork by Giancarlo Facchinetti, Nadia Kingsley, Isaac, Paul Kielty, students from Derwen College and members of Designs in Mind We were very pleased by the comments left at Qube gallery, the comments […]

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Painting by Pixels EXHIBITION!

  Do please come along to the Painting by Pixels exhibition at Qube gallery, Oswestry which can be visited throughout August 2018. Details of the exhibition, and Qube’s opening times are here Local news coverage about the exhibition is here You will see a large number of digital paintings, photography, and also an iPad slideshow […]

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Running workshops at Derwen College

Both Paul Kielty and I (Nadia Kingsley) absolutely loved running Painting by Pixels workshops at Derwen College in Gobowen, Shropshire It is an extraordinary award-winning Residential College for Special Needs The students show such community spirit and have wonderful talents and abilities And the staff are, well, extraordinary. Paul and I were shedding tears of […]

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Running workshops at Designs in Mind, Oswestry

The vision of Designs in Mind is: Open to everyone, together we are finding ways to live life and challenge mental health stigma. And their Mission? – High quality, ambitious, experimental art and design work and support to make independent ambition a reality. We – Paul Kielty and Nadia Kingsley – were absolutely delighted to partner up with […]

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Comments about the DIVERSIFLY project

I have just submitted the DIVERSIFLY evaluation report to the Arts Council England. I had collected screenshots of tweets and facebook posts as well as some comments that came through on email – and so I thought I would share some of them with you. DIVERSIFLY the book was recently on the longlist for the […]

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Visiting Tanya Raabe-Webber’s studio

This week Paul Kielty and I went for our second mentoring session with the amazing artist Tanya Raabe-Webber, at her home studio in Shropshire. We took our lesson plans and Makaton sheets to ask for her expert advice –  ahead of our “Painting by Pixels” workshops at Derwen College and Designs in Mind in May […]

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Training day with Emma Purshouse

Emma Purshouse is one of those people I, and so many others, COMPLETELY admire and can rely on one hundred per cent. So when I was working out who I would like Paul Kielty and I to receive specialist training from – to prepare us ahead of giving our own Painting By Pixels workshops at […]

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Examples of Nadia Kingsley & Giancarlo Facchinetti’s recent work

1. Click below to listen to/download the fifth out of nine ‘chapters’ – recorded from a live continuous performance in a mobile planetarium dome, which was performed at Birmingham Art & Science Festival,Wenlock Poetry Festival, Stratford Literary Festival and Birmingham Literature Festival. Music/soundscapes: Giancarlo Facchinetti. Voices, in order of appearance: Professor Trevor Ponman, astrophysicist; Emma Purshouse – poet; Nadia Kingsley […]

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West Midlands Children’s Poetry book beats adult books to scoop Poetry Category of Rubery Book Awards 2016

Press Release 8 July 2016 – from Fair Acre Press. For further information contact Nadia at fairacrepress@gmail.com I once Knew a Poem Who Wore a Hat –  Poetry by Wolverhampton’s Emma Purshouse –  Pictures by Solihull’s Catherine Pascall Moore –  Published by Oswestry -based Fair Acre Press, and edited by the Shropshire Press’ Nadia Kingsley […]

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